Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care

".... the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.

“The current architecture of the health system has developed piecemeal, involves duplication and is unwieldy. Liberating the N.H.S., and putting power in the hands of patients and clinicians, means we will be able to effect a radical simplification, and remove layers of management.” " [New York Times]

THE U.K. HAS PROVEN IT (AGAIN)..... CENTRAL PLANNING DOES NOT WORK !!!!

CUT OFF OUR U.S. IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY VOTING OUT THIS NOVEMBER THE RASCALS WHO BROUGHT IT TO US !!!!!!

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Axe falls on NHS services .... RATIONING